Alicia Huberman: Look, I'll make it easy for you. The time has come when you must tell me that you have a wife and two adorable ch...ildren, and this madness between us can't go on any longer.T.R. Devlin: I bet you've heard that line often enough.Alicia: Right below the belt every time. Oh that isn't fair, Dev.Devlin: Skip it. We have other things to talk about. We have a job.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Captain Prescott: I don't like this. I don't like her coming here.Mr. Beardsley: She's had me worried for some time, a woman... of that sort.T.R. Devlin: What sort is that, Mr. Beardsley?Mr. Beardsley: I don't think any of us have any illusions about her character, have we Devlin?Devlin: Not at all. Not in the slightest. Miss Huberman is first, last, and always not a lady. She may be risking her life, but when it comes to being a lady, she doesn't hold a candle to your wife, sir, sitting in Washington playing bridge with three other ladies of great honor and virtue.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

F.R. Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy. If reading a novel--for the... eighteenth century reader, the most frivolous of diversions--did not, by the middle of the twentieth century, make you a better person in some way, then you might as well flush the offending volume down the toilet, which was by far the best place for the undigested excreta of dubious nourishment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

This is one of the worst speeches I've ever seen. No one will listen except the Mobil P.R. man. List what we want to say M arrange... items in order of priority M then say them plainly and bluntly.... Hit hard and early. Don't apologize or evade tough issues.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

A bestial and violent man will go so far as to kill because he is under the influence of drink, exasperated, or driven by rage and... alcohol. He is paltry. He does not know the pleasure of killing, the charity of bestowing death like a caress, of linking it with the play of the noble wild beasts: every cat, every tiger, embraces its prey and licks it even while it destroys it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

If you see my Pompey, 30 yrs of age,new breeches, plain stockings, negro shoes;...if you see my Anna, likely young mulattobranded E on the right cheek, R on the left,catch them if you can and notify subscriber.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

[R]eports to the Surgeon General ... represent the final word upon the efficient and devoted sense of responsibility of our people... in this obligation to our fellow citizens. Overwhelmingly they confirm the fact that the general mortality rate, infant mortality rate, epidemics, the disease rate--are less than in normal times. There is but one explanation. That is, that through an aroused sense of public responsibility, those in destitution and their children are receiving actually more adequate care than even in normal times.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

A black pall, you know, with a silver cross on it, or R.I.P.--requiescat in pace--you know. That seems to me the most beautiful ex...pression--I like it much better than 'He is a jolly good fellow,' which is simply rowdy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »